Slow Food Sacramento is proud to recognize the following restaurants with our Snail of Approval. This award is given to restaurants that best exemplify the Slow Food principles of good, clean, fair food. These restaurants vary in their menu offerings, but as a whole they plan their menus around seasonal, local, and organically grown foods to the greatest extent possible. Many of these restaurants purchase produce and meat directly from local farmers. All have a strong commitment to high quality food grown and harvested in a sustainable manner.

Sacramento area restaurants currently receiving a Snail of Approval are presented below. For further information, including hours and menus, please follow the link to the individual restaurant website.

Look for the Snail of Approval decal on designated restaurants when dining out in Sacramento. Be sure to let the restaurant management know that you value their commitment to Slow Food principles.

1131 K St, Sacramento 95814 • (916) 443-3772 • elladiningroomandbar.com
Ella Dining Room and Bar is part of The Selland Family of Restaurants, and it embodies their philosophy of serving quality food that is from local sources whenever possible with honest hospitality

1627 16th Street, Sacramento 95814 • (916) 444-3000 • hotitalian.net
HOT ITALIAN strives to use local and organic ingredients with a menu that changes seasonally to reflect nature’s cycle to make its salads, pizza and calzone, as well as its gelato and sorbetto by Naia that is organic and made of seasonally selected ingredients.

1409 R St #102, Sacramento 95811 • (916) 452-7594 • magpiecafe.com
Magpie Café offers food and menus inspired by the fresh, high-quality ingredients available to us seasonally, with an emphasis on those from the Central Valley and Northern California. The Café offers baked goods, sandwiches, salad and soup for lunch and full service dining in the evenings.

2711 Riverside Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95818 • (916) 443-8929 • masullopizza.com
Historically speaking, pizza is still a relatively new phenomenon, having had its origins as a street food in Naples, Italy, about 200 years ago.

1401 28th Street, Sacramento, CA 95816 • (916) 457-5737 • paragarys.com
Paragary’s Bar and Oven was a pioneer in utilizing local, seasonal ingredients when it first opened in 1983, spurring the now prevalent “locavore” trend in the Sacramento dining scene.

1230 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 • (916) 341-4100 • PMB Sheraton website
This is a farm-to-table restaurant with a passion for seasonality and locally grown ingredients. They are committed to educating the community and they are a stop on the Local Roots food tours.

2225 Hurley Way, Sacramento, CA 95825 • (916) 568-7171 • thekitchenrestaurant.com
Chefs at The Kitchen serve a 6-course prix fixe menu to 50 guests each night for their one-seating, seasonal Chef’s Demonstration Dinners that are prepared before your eyes in a kind of theater-in-the-round. The ingredients are the best and freshest available and almost all local, and the chefs prepare their amazing, all-you-can-eat feasts with humor, excitement and a passion for real food, great wines, and unsurpassed hospitality.